MSE Parents Club Part 6

keelykat

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Oh and to make matters even worse, I just caught the kitten !!!!!!!! in my big pile of carrier bags/bin bags/re-useable bags, down the side of the fridge.

I really am crying now. WHAT A CRAP EFFING DAY AND ITS BARELY BEGAN!

I know what you need to do, well what i'd do..go out for a break away from your flat. Go find somewhere to have a coffee/tea and breathe!! Relax.....calm happy thoughts!! You sound so stressed out, it's not good at all.

On the subject of cats-mine are still with my parents. Marmalade kept weeing on our bed when i was pregnant, up untill i was pregnant she was fine. She must have sensed it, and didn't like it. I could actually cope with the poo, as i could get it off easily but wee....yuk it soaked into the mattress and bedding!

calm...happy.....thoughts....... xx

LuceB84

Sami_Bee wrote: »

MIL's just txt... Holiday is booked!! :j

That looks lovely Sami When u going?

Having a busy morning here and Jake is in a awful mood, he's full of cold bless him so being very grouchy

Hope everyone's ok

Buttonmoons

You think getting him done will sort it? The litterbox wasn't even dirty! I just cleaned it before bed last night and there was only 1 wee in it, so I don't think that was the problem, maybe I should put another tray down?

I'm just scared to go out and come back to pee and poo everywhere. I'll go phone the vets now and see what they say....

Sami_Bee

jillie1974 wrote: »

thanks to the fairies, i had a nice present this morning!!

ooh what did you get Jillie?

Buttonmoons wrote: »

OH GREAT, I just caught him pee'ing in Keiras clothes drawer. Now Its all covered!

I'm boiling mad. WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THAT DEVIL CAT?!

get them nuts off and quick!

Buttonmoons

He's getting done tomorrow, hurrah! The woman said "Oh not sure if the vets will do it at 5 1/2 months" I burst out crying and said that he's evil, and just caught him pee'ing on my daughters clothes, and poo'ing in my kitchen, and I said he weighs 3.7kg! She said okay, take him in tomorrow at 9:30am.

Jesus I feel better, god I hate him.

mookiandco

Buttons - Did you send those wasps my way. No sooner do I read about your waspy friend then I go into my bathroom and theres a very very angry one climbing the window. I tried to shoo it out the window with the baby wipes packet (a bad mummy moment) but it refused to go, so I have closed the door and run away.

keelykat

Buttonmoons wrote: »

You think getting him done will sort it? The litterbox wasn't even dirty! I just cleaned it before bed last night and there was only 1 wee in it, so I don't think that was the problem, maybe I should put another tray down?

I'm just scared to go out and come back to pee and poo everywhere. I'll go phone the vets now and see what they say....

Just shut the cat in one room and go out. It won't be for long. you need the break lol.

Buttonmoons

Oooopsies sorry about that!!

My friend is going to come down by mine tomorrow at 9, and watch Keira so I can take that douchebag to get his dingles cut off, you were right Emlou, he DOES need done, he just tried to pin my other cat down and rape her, she screamed. HES AWFUL!!!

SusanC_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

I understand Susan... I'm completely the oposite, I never close doors... Mainly because there are no radiators upstairs so if you close a door that room gets really cold... I had a gate at the top of the stairs and for a while I think there might of been one in Aimee's doorway too so I didn't worry about her escaping down the stairs in the middle of the night...

Last night she requested the open door again so OH put part of the cot across the top of the stairs with a windchime attached. We left the landing light on and she didn't wake us up in the night which she has been doing recently (or at least she just did a couple of cries rather than screaming her head off and us having to get up to deal with her) so now we need to decide whether to set up the stairgate at the top of the stairs or try a nightlight.

tarajayne wrote: »

I'm afraid I couldn't even cope with living in a town, I like going outside and seeing fields, I love being able to walk to the beach. I walk to school and even people I don't know say morning and I am amazed at the help we got when I was pregnant and the cards and good wishes when Maddy was born. The schools are excellent and life is slower. Probably too slow for some!

I grew up in a suburb and always thought it must be horrible living in a city but when I did I liked it. (Although Durham isn't the most city-ish city really and I lived opposite a park.) The only thing I really missed about living in the city centre when I moved out to a village was not having to use the car all the time. I used to drive to work, to the supermarket for petrol every 8 working days (and do a big shop at the same time) and to visit my Auntie but everywhere else I went was within walking distance.

emlou2009 wrote: »

do you have a range near you? we bought a plug in night light from there for 99p!! we bought two actually so we could put one on the landing to save turning the light on and off, in case the cat pushed the door open and the bright hall light woke seth. they come with spare bulbs too!

Never heard of it. Will have to see if they have a website so I can see whether there are any round here.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

:rotfl:we [STRIKE]aren't[/STRIKE] weren't, I was just showing someone on here where I'd like to live and found it. I thought I'd just show hubby it so we could be depressed about our crap house together but he said he's pretty sure we can afford it :grinheart No harm in going to see if it's as good in the flesh!

We looked around for a year (mainly at things we knew we couldn't afford at that stage) semi-seriously to get an idea of what the market was like and what we were looking for. We got our house for an amazingly good price for what it is and I think that the reason was probably the garden. As it used to be an end plot (it isn't on the end now as there are new houses) it has a good sized garden (much bigger than the others in the street) and the garden was overgrown and full of junk. Most properties at our end of the market are snapped up very quickly by buy to letters but if you are going to let a house out you don't really want one with a big garden and especially not one which will require loads of work to make it look decent before you let it out.

emlou2009 wrote: »

whats the rules on car seats? what do they weigh before they need the forward facing one? is it 18lb or 20lb or something totally different, i cant remember? seth is heavy and his feet hang off the end but his head is nowhere near the top, and i dont think he's really strong enough with his neck and upper body for a forward facing one yet, if he falls asleep in the rear one his head slumps even with the head hugger!

They don't necessarily fit in all cars but you can get forward facing Gp1 carseats.

I wrote about them here if you're interested in finding out more about them.

Krystaltips wrote: »

Aimee fell over on the way back from church, splatted right on her front and scraped all her elbow... Button, she's got blood! Thankfully being ever prepared, I had a princess plaster in my bag... Amazing things they are, they stop pain aswell as bleeding!

:rotfl:

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Bruno - I thought babies stopped poo'ing when asleep after a certain amount of months, some instinctive thing? Don't quote me on that though, but I'm so sure Keira stopped pooping whilst asleep at a few months old, so then during night feeds etc, unless she was super heavy, I never changed the nappy IYGWIM?

I don't think they actually poo in their sleep but they don't necessarily wake up fully to do it. Presumably the problem is that once he's done a poo, Elijah isn't going to go back to sleep again rather than that doing it wakes him up.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Do you ever get stuck in a rut about what to cook? I always have chicken/turkey/mince/sausages in the freezer, yet I totally have brain farts and end up cooking the same things, it gets boring. I have loads of cookbooks and always say to myself that I'm going to sit down, and pick a few recipes and get the bits I need etc, but then I never do. Why do things require about 345u345y34985 different ingrediants too, FRESH herbs all the time, Bah!

I just do a tsp of dried instead of tbsp of fresh. I also substitute ingredients (depending on what they are) according to what I have.

emlou2009 wrote: »

of course, this is the child whos mum didnt mix with any other kids at all, she didnt speak til she was gone 2yo to anyone other than her mum, and still wont speak to other kids, only adults...!! starts school in september, that'll go well then :rolleyes:

Most of the two year olds we see regularly are antisocial and won't play with Alice when she tries. Adults are more responsive (and less violent). Alice will speak to anyone as long as she initiates it - if they say hello first she is shy.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

What kind of meals are staples in you lots houses anyways if you don't mind? I read the OS board for inspiration but sometimes I don't know what half the food is and when someone writes something like chicken pasta bake.....I don't know what's in it beside chicken and pasta - me = clueless!

Spaghetti bolognaise
Lasagne
Chilli
Roast dinner
Slow cooker stew
Soup
Random food curry
Random food pasta
Fisherman's pie
Risotto
Egg fried rice
Omlette
Sandwiches
Pizza
Something on toast

weezl74 wrote: »

sorry to hark back to a previous question, but I'd really like others thoughts and I think only sami posted:p

What did people think was a good rate for granny having fergie per day? I was thinking £30. Too much? Too little?

Sorry, I didn't answer because I have no idea.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

yeah they're nursing bra's haven't you heard of them before? they usually pretty expensive so I've not bothered

How do you feed if you don't use nursing bras?

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Do you know why OH is worried? is there history in his family?
I know I'm pretty laid back about most things but it's never really entered my head OH always worries more about the boys when ill but I always put it down to being raised by a hypochondriac but maybe it's a man thing?

Before Alice was born, we used to babysit for friends and OH always used to like to pop upstairs to check the children were still breathing.

Sami_Bee

LuceB84 wrote: »

That looks lovely Sami When u going?

Having a busy morning here and Jake is in a awful mood, he's full of cold bless him so being very grouchy

Hope everyone's ok

we're going in a couple of weeks sat-sat, IL's are coming with us for the first 2/3 days.
I'm gonna ask my sis if she n OH want to come on the friday too

aww everyone's getting colds, I'm suffering with hayfever with the 'nice' weather :rolleyes: